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In January 2013 when Stephen O’Grady, an analyst at RedMonk, published “The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World,” the book’s central argument (then and still now) universally resonated with an emerging open-source community. He convincingly charts developers’ movement “out of the shadows and into the light as new influencers on society’s [technical landscape].” Using...

The most important factor to successful machine learning is having the right data at scale, but organizations struggle with how to get the right datasets combined into the right format for their projects. At Databricks, we’ve seen customers achieve success by bringing data and ML together, and we’ve partnered with Snowflake to share their stories...

To a good degree, this back-of-the-envelope flowchart, by Karen Hao of MIT Technology Review, charts to elucidate what constitutes the use of AI in the grand scheme of things. While many conferences may not have a flowchart to select sessions to identify what’s AI, the sessions, though, do speak to technical aspects that comprise AI...

We recently hosted the webinar — CIO Survey: Enterprise Challenges to AI and How to Overcome Them — featuring Jen Garofalo, Research Director at IDG, the parent company to CIO.com, and Pat McDonough, VP of Customer Success at Databricks. This webinar covered key findings from a recent CIO.com survey of 200 executives on the topic...

Powering innovation on AWS in life sciences, public sector, machine learning, and big data analytics. Databricks, founded by the original creators of Apache SparkTM, is proud to be a Platinum sponsor at AWS re:Invent. Stop by booth #416 to grab some cool schwag and see demos of MLflow, TensorFlow, Apache Spark, and other  technologies that...

For much of Apache Spark’s history, its capacity to process data at scale and capability to unify disparate workloads has led Spark developers to tackle new use cases. Through innovation and extension of its ecosystem, developers combine data and AI to develop new applications. So it befits developers to come to this summit not just...

In October 2012, Harvard Business Review put a spotlight on the data science career with a dedicated issue and a catchy claim: Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century. Last year in October, five years on, Forbes recast an answer on Quora, Why Data Science Is Such A Hot Career Right Now? Recent...

On July 19, we held our monthly Bay Area Spark Meetup (BASM) at Databricks, HQ in San Francisco. At the Spark + AI Summit in June, we announced two open-source projects: Project Hydrogen and MLflow. Partly to continue sharing the progress of these open-source projects with the community and partly to encourage community contributions, two...

Within a couple of years of its release as an open-source machine learning and deep learning framework, TensorFlow has seen an amazing rate of adoption. Consider the number of stars on its github page: over 105K; look at the number of contributors: 1500+; and observe its growing penetration and pervasiveness in verticals: from medical imaging...